Lukashenko blackmails striking miners to
replace them with Ukrainians.
But they replied that
they wouldn’t do it
Yesterday former president Lukashenko talked a lot about striking Belarusians as
well. In a nutshell his message was:
if you want to work - just don’t work, nobody is
irreplaceable. There are a lot of good specialists in the neighboring countries.
Lukashenko told that Russians had been already working on the state TV instead of
the striking Belarusians. And at the same time he decided to threaten miners who were having
one of the most powerful strikes now (and because of that every single day employees of
“Belaruskali” have been disappearing. Then they were found at KGB or at a police office).
“Why are you striking? Okay, you are
striking, all right. I command the director that he
shouldn’t chase you. 2000 people from Soligorsk
want to work here in “Belaruskali”. They will
come. If they don’t come, there’s unemployment
all over the world. Ukranian miners will come.
There are lots of unemployed,” - said the former
president.
Lukashenko failed. The answer of the Ukranians.
The reaction to the words of the former president was immediate. The answer was
made by the Head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine and the Independent
Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets. He said that ukranian minors are not
unemployed. Moreover, there is so much work at the ukranian mines that they need even
more people.
“Miners are one of the most solidary
castes in the world. And no one is going
to Belarus to become a strikebreaker”, -
Volynets said.
And decided to support
the Belarusians:
“Here in Ukraine not
once we were in difficulty, but we have
got our rights to go on strike freely, to ave protests, we have free elections. We wish you to get respect for your rights and
freedoms too”.
